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100% iRacing where I'm 50/50 road and oval. It's a very addictive hobby and I can get sucked into racing until 3am on a work night sometimes .
This is rig #2 after selling my starter setup which was fanatec csl elite, obutto revolution rig, triple 24" setup.
New PC is self built with 7800x3d microcenter bundle with nvidia 3080 ftw.
Triple Samsung g5 32"
Rig is Advanced Sim Racing ASR-6 and I'm currently rocking both the integrated and stand alone triple monitor stand for a full on belt and suspenders approach.
Kirkey seat from a legends car, which I find way more comfy than it looks.
SIMTAG Tilton pedals.
Simucube sport wheelbasesimracebay Lambo GT3 wheel for road
Richmotech 14" MPI for oval
SiMagiic SQ1 sequential shifter
HSR wind sim
Yamaha receiver with NHT 5.1 Surround speaker setup.
Buttkicker mini under seat.
Simdog robo lab2 (pictured in charging mode)
I decided to go with a stand alone server rack to somewhat keep all the additional equipment organized
Pretty happy with it overall, and huge upgrade from previous rig. I'm right at 170' fov with the monitor 24" from my eyes. Stays above 100fps with most hogh quality settings enabled. Will probably add more bass shakers in the future and I'm also interested in a roof and ambient lighting setup.
Just getting started. Sim Labs P1X Pro frame, Sparco seat, Simagic Alpha/FX Pro wheel, P2000 Pedals with Haptics. Buttkicker Pro shaker. I’ve tried out Race Room Experience, F1 ‘24, Assetto Corsa, Assetto Corsa Competizione, an Assetto Corsa EVO. Once I get everything dialed in, I’ll try some iRacing.
I have a folding stand for my wheel and pedals. I have to drag it into the living room and set it up every time as I only play Gran Turismo on the Playstation, but would like to get into iRacing for some off season practice. At least I have some nice Fanatec inverted pedals and Fanatec wheel. Just need a rig, seat, monitor and computer, lol.
After about a year on PS5/GT7, I jumped into iRacing in January. Currently, I'm on a Next Level F-GT cockpit with Logitech Pro wheel & pedals. PC is a AMD Ryzen 7 9700X with a Radeon 7800XT. I've used the PSVR2 headset (with an adapter for PC), but prefer my triple 32s and overhead monitor.
Next Level GT lite foldable cockpit /w Thrustmaster wheel, pedals, and shifter. The PC is an older AMD PC plugged into my den's 4k TV. since i'm the only one that uses the den for video games i can leave the cockpit setup most of the time. For games I use Assetto corsa almost exclusively and mostly just run laps on versions of my local tracks (Gingerman, Blackhawk farms, Autobahn)
100% iRacing where I'm 50/50 road and oval. It's a very addictive hobby and I can get sucked into racing until 3am on a work night sometimes .
This is rig #2 after selling my starter setup which was fanatec csl elite, obutto revolution rig, triple 24" setup.
New PC is self built with 7800x3d microcenter bundle with nvidia 3080 ftw.
Triple Samsung g5 32"
Rig is Advanced Sim Racing ASR-6 and I'm currently rocking both the integrated and stand alone triple monitor stand for a full on belt and suspenders approach.
Kirkey seat from a legends car, which I find way more comfy than it looks.
SIMTAG Tilton pedals.
Simucube sport wheelbasesimracebay Lambo GT3 wheel for road
Richmotech 14" MPI for oval
SiMagiic SQ1 sequential shifter
HSR wind sim
Yamaha receiver with NHT 5.1 Surround speaker setup.
Buttkicker mini under seat.
Simdog robo lab2 (pictured in charging mode)
I decided to go with a stand alone server rack to somewhat keep all the additional equipment organized
Pretty happy with it overall, and huge upgrade from previous rig. I'm right at 170' fov with the monitor 24" from my eyes. Stays above 100fps with most hogh quality settings enabled. Will probably add more bass shakers in the future and I'm also interested in a roof and ambient lighting setup.
I’m mainly on iracing with some time spent on ACC. I just upgraded my PC, 9800x3D, 64g ram, 4070ti, triple 30” 1440p screens. Fanatec GT DD pro, pedals, Thrustmaster shifter on an older reseat.net rig with TracRacer triple monitor stand. I turned a bedroom of our house into my game room.
No monitors for racing, just a Pimax 5K VR headset
The factory passenger seat from my C5Z (I sold the driver seat)
3080 graphics card
Basically the low end of the high end - the cheapest extrusion-based frame, the cheapest direct-drive wheel, the cheapest all-metal pedals... not the cheapest VR headset but the cheapest that has a wide field of view.
VR makes the whole rig more compact than it would be otherwise, which is good because my home office is packed. The resolution is good enough but not great - objects in the distance are kinda grainy. They had just come out with the 8K resolution headset when I put this all together, but I wasn't ready to spend quite that much. I rarely notice the resolution when I'm driving, mostly just on long straights if I look at stuff in the distance.
The only drawback to VR is that it made me feel slightly ill at first. I had to quit driving after 15 minutes, then 30 minutes, then an hour, then it stopped being an issue. Unless I spin - that's still gut-wrenching. But maybe that's a good thing.
I mostly do Assetto Corsa in track-day mode. I never had a problem staying away from other cars in real life wheel-to-wheel racing, but in sim races I hit people so often it's embarrassing. So I'm just working on car control rather than racecraft.
In process putting my first sim together. Sabelt chassis and Sim Magic parts. Waiting on seat mounting bracket and some speakers to complete it. Plan is to start on iRacing and go from there.
100% iRacing where I'm 50/50 road and oval. It's a very addictive hobby and I can get sucked into racing until 3am on a work night sometimes .
This is rig #2 after selling my starter setup which was fanatec csl elite, obutto revolution rig, triple 24" setup.
New PC is self built with 7800x3d microcenter bundle with nvidia 3080 ftw.
Triple Samsung g5 32"
Rig is Advanced Sim Racing ASR-6 and I'm currently rocking both the integrated and stand alone triple monitor stand for a full on belt and suspenders approach.
Kirkey seat from a legends car, which I find way more comfy than it looks.
SIMTAG Tilton pedals.
Simucube sport wheelbasesimracebay Lambo GT3 wheel for road
Richmotech 14" MPI for oval
SiMagiic SQ1 sequential shifter
HSR wind sim
Yamaha receiver with NHT 5.1 Surround speaker setup.
Buttkicker mini under seat.
Simdog robo lab2 (pictured in charging mode)
I decided to go with a stand alone server rack to somewhat keep all the additional equipment organized
Pretty happy with it overall, and huge upgrade from previous rig. I'm right at 170' fov with the monitor 24" from my eyes. Stays above 100fps with most hogh quality settings enabled. Will probably add more bass shakers in the future and I'm also interested in a roof and ambient lighting setup.
I only do iRacing, which apparently taxes the CPU more than GPU. The 3080 does great. FPS over 100 with most of the grafics turned up. I would have done something a bit nicer, but I carried it over from my previous system to see how it would do. Haven't really given it a second thought.
iRacing. 4090 driving triple 55"s, a 3080 running VR and normal monitor for stats.
Simucube and Heusinkveld
Hi, can I ask what VR headset are you using? I just built my BIL a pretty nice gaming PC and he’s trying to VR race in iracing with a quest 3 but it looks like crap. We’ve watched and tinkered with most settings as per YT videos but he’s still not happy. For reference, the pc is Ryzen 7 7700 with 5070ti.
I just tried my Quest 3 on my pc and thought it looked pretty good overall and ran pretty well. A bit pixelated in the very far distance but that’s it. I kind of think that’s the best we will get with the Quest 3 though. .
Thanks and very nice set up. You must have a pretty beefy power supply!!
I have a 7-hour kart endurance race (IRL, not sim) this weekend, and have been using the sim to get ready. At first, I just wanted to get used to wearing a helmet, gloves, etc for that long again, but I was seeing a huge increase in small mistakes after about 25-30 minutes into a session, so I started doing 1-hour practice runs at least once a day.
The FF1600 is a decent-enough kart substitute, and Laguna Seca has a lot of the characteristics of the track, but I think the real value of iRacing single player is that you can set up a wide variety of AI opponents to sort of reflect the gap between the fastest and slowest people out there.
It's been forever since I've done any endurance racing (and even that was on a motorcycle, not in a car/kart), and it's really interesting how much my concentration has improved (and mistakes reduced) over a week of doing these 1-hour training stints.
And, thankfully, the wife hasn't come into the room when I've been on the sim wearing full gear.
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